Do other Big Ten bands travel to more than a couple road games per year? It seems like Big Ten schools in general are not accomodating to road bands, except for rivalries where the agreement is probably reciprocal. Michigan seems to be the most generous in allowing almost every team to bring their bands, where other schools with smaller stadia might say no.

Translation: there is no way Harbaugh would burn down his house, literally or figuratively, is service of only moving forward in life and banishing nostalgia. We know from the Harbaugh family podcast and many other sources that he is very much a family man, and nostalgic and sentimental about Ann Arbor and the other important places in Harbaugh's past.

I've played the Baird Carillon (as well as the North Campus bells). It's pretty awesome to see the bells up close, and to have the power to make noise across campus with just your hands and fingers. Students, if you have some piano or other musical training, take the class; it's so interesting and so much fun to play.

RB is the most punishing position in the league, where most guys, even if they are successful, don't make it far past their rookie deals. Why waste his energy on a play he has next to no chance to make?

That not a very hot take. The winner will likely have a different coach next year too. Unless Kelly can win 9 games, I think ND will finally dump him. It's been 5 years since the run to the national championship game, and they haven't done anything of note since. On the MSU side, plenty of people have speculated that Dantonio might be forced to retire. The on field performance slide is bad enough; the discipline issues are worse. The AD is in turmoil beyond the football program. It would make sense to clean house and start over fresh with a new young staff and try to do what Durkin is doing at Maryland.

I'm playing Devil's advocate because I totally agree that NCAA football > NFL. But there are a number of things which the NFL has over college:

Quality of play is definitely better overall. The players are are more skilled, experienced, and conditioned. Of course it cuts both ways, as more skill on defense stifles offensive skill. But there are plays and schemes that can only be done at the NFL level.

The draft, roster limit and salary cap enforce parity, so winning games is more about the playing and coaching, rather than a skill gap. Every team in the league (except the Lions and Browns) has a relatively equal chance of a successful season, compared to the disparity between the college football haves and have-nots. The trade-off is that there are no truly shocking NFL upsets. When a team wins a surprising road game, it's just what happens.

Also cupcake games which have infested college football don't really occur in the NFL. It's a regular occurrance to have non-conference games be blowouts where the starters don't play in the second half of college football, and far more rare in the NFL where games are decided within a possession or two more often.

Some fans prefer to follow the inside baseball part of the draft, free agency, and teambuilding through salary cap management, and prefer that to the recruiting industry.

It's easier to get emotionally invested in a player when their career can last a decade or two, compared to 4 at most for a college player. Denard was a starter for 3 years, and it seems so long ago. If you're the type that really likes to follow individual players, college is harder since the career arc is so short. Changing sports but look at how people freaked out when Verlander was traded - it does have an emotional effect to many fans.

The NFL has branding over NCAA. Individual schools have their great traditions and ESPN has done a great job with Gameday and big-game Saturday nights, etc., Sunday games, MNF, and the Super Bowl are cultural institutions which almost trancend football fans. Fantasy football helps here too.

First of all, this is not about a Rutgers game (in fact they are @ Nebraska that weekend). You missed that part completely.

Second, Detroit is not New York City. This isn't about hosting in a big city just for the sake of it. It's about hosting in the biggest city in the country, the media and cultural capital. For a one-off event, who cares? One of the draws for Gameday is that it visits fans around the country, on various college campuses. Now they are visiting another segment of fans who they haven't seen before - the ones who moved to New York.

OT and not threadworthy, but ESPN has an article discussing Tom Brady and Drew Brees. They play each other this weekend, but there's a video focused on when the matched up in college. At Michigan Stadium in 1999, of course. Michigan won the game 38-12.

I don't get the hate. True that there's no college games going on in NYC that weekend, but NYC is obviously a special place (even if Times Square really isn't) and in so many years they have never been there. I'm always on board with Gameday going to a new location. Better than going to Columbus or Tuscaloosa or USC for the 100th time.

The demand is there for fantasy football content. It's why they had the 24+ hour fantasy marathon at the beginning of the season. Nobody wants to hear about other people's teams, but they'll eat up everything they can on their own team.

This thread cannot end well and should probably be edited for everyone's sake.

I will say that Jemele Hill is the worst and most obnoxious Sparty homer, made worse because she has a national platform (as opposed to, say, Mike Valenti). Even as a defernder of Detroit pro sports, her takes are bad, the most famous being the Celtics article from many years ago.

As long as we're discussing too-early ratings systems, Michigan dropped from #3 to #4 (jumped by Oklahoma) in the Massey Ratings system. We are a favorite in all remaining games, with the closest being PSU (51% likelihood of winning). 80%+ in the four games between now and then.

From the Washington Post, an article about a law in NYC which requires use of the preferred pronouns. I trust that the paragraph quoted at the beginning of the article accurately represents the law since the link to the page is broken. Does this satisfy your request for a citation?

Edited because I forgot to include the link. See a link directly to the NYC website below.

EGJ and Brian are both misspelling Feleipe Franks' name. I only point it out to show how dumb his name is. "Feleipe" is not a real name and Mr. and Mrs. Franks are the stupid for giving him that name. That is all.